Posts by RyokuMas

Re: Basic accountancy problem

"NO one is forced to use Googles products..."

As I've said before to the sheeple-bleating of the Google faithful - find me reliable sites which fulfil my needs and do not use analytics, maps, search or any other API that Google offers, and I will use them.

Also, maybe you haven't been paying attention recently, but Google just got hit with a record fine for anticompetitive behaviour. If you think for a minute that Google will not use every trick in their book to strangle such a competitor at birth, I'm afraid you are deluded.

Re: Microsoft's big mistake was in not filling their app store.

"the market has spoken"

This phrase always makes me laugh - especially when it's extolled by the more vocal advocates of Linux...

Re: re: pay for the good/services

"Most freetards would like to pay too. But not the artificially inflated price set by corporate greed."

In which case, how do you explain Android's insane piracy rate and the rise of free-to-play while games priced at a dollar or less are left to flounder?

Re: Quel Surprise

Strikes me that Google is becoming some kind of data-driven Uber, doing whatever they please and occasionally getting caught. Except they have the money to laugh off the small fines and buy off pretty much anyone they want.

Re: And the mustachioed contenance of Big Brother opened into a smile

It would be nice, wouldn't it?

However, in reality, it's the people with the money that get to push what the law should be.

Re: That's Surface crossed off my Christmas list, then!

"Who'd have thought it?"

About as many people as would have expected such a post from you, I'd wager!

Re: Oh thanks, now I'll have bloody Bomb the Bass stuck in my head all day!

"Perseverance, that's all I needed."

... and an auto-fire joystick?

Re: Doing more and more evil

Somehow "I told you so" really doesn't quite say it...

Re: Nice!

... or they might manipulate their search results to bury information about it...

Re: Oh for Pity's Sake

"I can't see how on earth Google getting round that could ever be considered legal."

Since when have Google been bothered about the law?

Re: A "Windows skin" for an underlying Linux codebase

Sorry, but the AGGRESSIVE, LASH-OUT attitude displayed here only serves to put me off giving Linux development another try... this is fast approaching Eadon territory.

As as for worrying about control and spying, what search engine, browser and phone OS do you use?

Re: Don't be evil

They forsook it a long time ago, ever since someone realised "Hey, if we put a link to this browser we made on our search page with a strapline of 'upgrade your web browsing experience', we could take over the browser market!"

And the big problem we now face is that too many in IT were too stuck on their grudge with Microsoft to realise that the same thing was happening all over again, albeit on a far greater and more insidious scale, right down to the astroturfers and cheerleaders. Don't believe me? Just check out the past comments of some of those so prevalent in their pro-Google remarks... alas, I cannot provide links lest I be accused of calling someone a shill, and thus violate the Reg rules...

Re: Plenty of blame to go around

"Is that the same Google Docs that got totally owned the other week?"

... or the same Google that has been illegally"inappropriately" using patient data?

Re: world+dog

@Hopalong - same here: four mails so far and no warning.

Re: Agile and government do not mix

House!

/buzzwordBingo

Re: Too true

"<Cough> 5 years Google docs flaw</cough>"

Won't stop the usual knee-jerk though.

Re: Huh?

I don't see any "Share on Uber" or "Login using your Uber account" on any of the websites I visit...

Re: "Unlike Lyft, Uber changes the tokens it uses..identify drivers, to prevent such tracking."

@Phil O'Sophical Guess your area isn't served by Arriva...

Re: Consumers

If consumers cared whether or not they were spied on, Google would be out of business and Duck Duck Go would be #1 search engine.

Alas this is not the case.

Re: Soft target?

But we seem to bash MS more for this slurping than the others. I wonder why?

Some are still mired 20+ years ago in the past and can't get over the browser wars. Others still blindly believe the dream from the early days of Google, and cannot face what they have become. Others still because, despite the fact that the majority of Android devices running an OS flavour that is becoming increasing proprietary to Google, they still claim it as a victory for open source and Linux.

... and of course, like Microsoft before them, there are those who have a vested interest in attacking the competition.

Re: Not Dead Yet

The tragedy here is that all those who are whooping and hollering about "the demise of Windows" are basically overlooking one key thing: the driving force behind this is Google.

The same Google who requires integration of their services in what was once an open source operating system...

The same Google who have (ab)used their monopoly over search results to make their browser the #1...

The same Google who has built their entire business on "spying on people"*...

A Billy Connelly sketch springs to mind - he's talking about a preacher delivering a sermon about people in hell looking up at god and wailing "We didn't know!" - and god replying "Well, you f***ing well know now, don't you?!"... well, in about 20 years time, we'll definitely know.

* I always loved the way with the anti-Microsoft-brigade that it's "spying on people" when it's Windows 10, but with Google it's "that's the way their business works and I'm happy to exchange my privacy to use their services"...